By the end of every two weeks, Kathy Katula has only a mere $65 left after paying her $900 mortgage and $1,200 hydro bill. She’s now struggling to keep a roof over her head.

She’s your average Canadian and she wasn’t afraid of putting Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in his place.

Katula has been fending off a barrage of Facebook friend requests from strangers since her televised emotional plea at Friday’s Peterborough town hall forum with the PM.

“I was looking out in the audience and seeing everyone crying, I was shaking,” she told the Toronto Sun. “I just saw the video and I look ridiculous. But it was from the heart. It was like letting every raw emotion I’d been dealing with and had been dealing with over the last couple years to survive, and just letting it out.”

In a shaky voice, the 54-year-old from Buckhorn — located 30 kilometres north of Peterborough — emphatically told Trudeau she couldn’t take any more.

“You have failed me, and I’m asking you today to fix that,” she said. “I’m asking you, Mr. Trudeau ... how is it justified for you to ask me to pay a carbon tax when I only have $65 left in my paycheque every two weeks to feed my family?”

A couple weeks ago, after Ontario kicked in carbon tax on New Year’s Day, Katula found an extra $45 on her monthly propane bill to fuel her baseboard heating. It was the last straw.

In his response, Trudeau said governments need to ensure people barely making ends meet shouldn’t be penalized for his climate change policy, but he ultimately passed the buck to provinces to dole out the carbon tax however they see fit.

“The fact that he stood there and said (the tax) didn’t take effect yet, either he was not being honest or he just has no clue that it’s going on already,” Katula said. “I think he was completely dumbfounded. I think I caught him off guard.

“I hope when he lays in bed and goes to sleep he realizes, ‘This is a real Canadian. This is a real struggle.’”

A few years ago, Katula survived a coma but was left with a brain injury that affects her right leg, and her hearing’s impaired. She also recovered from meningitis and suffers from epilepsy.

The leftover $65 is used to cover off as many groceries she can afford.

“I’m stocking up on Campbell’s soup,” she said. “I’m in deep poverty. But none of this stops me from going out there and getting ahead in life.”

Katula said she has no regrets with how she pressed the PM for an answer.